<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Listers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">A look at how modern-day monopolies operate and how Systemic Failure in how regulators regulate can cause a player to use heavy-handed tactics to gain and maintain Market Dominance.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Is it time to relook at how State Players navigate the increasingly complicated Technology Landscape to ensure Market Driven Monopolies don't abuse their powers? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The examples are many but of note are:-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">1. Microsoft in the '90s</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">2. Google and Facebook in the 2010s</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">3. And now Qualcomm whose bad behaviour is now coming to light in a scathing indictment by Judge Lucy Koh in an Anti-Trust ruling in the US.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">This latest misbehaviour by #BigTech calls the whole 'Free Market' ethos of the Capitalist System to question. How will the world deal with such Systemic Failure and State Capture by huge multinationals? The <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/how-qualcomm-shook-down-the-cell-phone-industry-for-almost-20-years/">Qualcomm Story </a> is even more shocking in its scope because it held to ransom some of the biggest players in the Global Telcom sector - From Lenovo, to Apple to Blackberry to Samsung. It is amazing how it took so long to unravel and even now as we speak the game is not over yet.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Read on:-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(240,241,242);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:opensans;font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(240,241,242);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:opensans;font-size:15px">In 2005, Apple contacted Qualcomm as a potential supplier for modem chips in the first iPhone. Qualcomm's response was unusual: a letter demanding that Apple sign a patent licensing agreement before Qualcomm would even consider supplying chips.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/how-qualcomm-shook-down-the-cell-phone-industry-for-almost-20-years/">How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years! </a></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Ali Hussein</span></font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span>Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>AHK & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2">

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